Matias Thayer
Manager, Data Science And Engineering
Sheffield, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMatias Thayer is a data science and engineering manager with 11 years of experience transforming software and database expertise into production-grade ML and data platforms. Currently leading Data Science and Engineering at Firebird after senior data engineering roles at Congenica and Owlstone Medical, he combines hands-on ETL, data warehouse design and deployment experience with a competition-proven modeling toolkit as a Kaggle Grandmaster. He has a track record of improving predictive performance in commercial settings (e.g., ~30% lift at Seamless Capital) and shipping analytics tooling across biotech and enterprise customers. Comfortable moving between SQL/PLSQL tuning, pipeline automation and model deployment, he often bridges R&D and product teams to operationalize complex data workflows. Fluent across the ML lifecycle and with roots in software and electronics engineering, he brings pragmatic engineering judgement plus a competitive, experiment-driven approach to solving data problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Electrical Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Engineer's degree Electrical Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at INACAPCourseraMITxedxLicenciatura en Artes mención Música Music, Licenciatura en Artes mención Música Music at Universidad de Chile
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (24)
gbm10
xgboost10
dataflow10
machine-learning10
distributed-systems10
java10
gradient-boosting10
hadoop9
spark9
scala9
python9
dask9
vector6
graph-theory6
connected-components6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chechir/doors
Jun 2018 - Nov 2025
Contributions:72 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 7 years 6 months
chechir/ExData_Plotting1
Jun 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:3 pushes in 8 years 2 months
data-analysispythonexploratoryplottingexploratory-data-analysis
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